finisar history of innovation and technology leadership · dwdm networks ipo acquisition: (vcsels)...
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Finisar Goes Public and raised $149.3 million. By the close of trading on the first day Finisar stock rose 373%, the seventh largest first day gain in the history of Wall Street at that time.
FIRST to Market with transceivers with (patented) digital diagnostics
50 Millionth VCSEL Die shipped
10 Millionth Transceiver/transponder shipped
Ranked #1 in Patent Power Among Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (IEEE Spectrum Magazine and 1790 Analytics Firm)
FIRST 150Gb/s parallel active optical cable
Introduced
WaveShaper, industry’s first programmable optical processor family
Initiated 100Gb/s CFP MSA
FIRST to Market with transceivers using 850nm VCSELs
Acquisition: (Fabry Perot and DFB Lasers)
FIRST to Demonstrate40km DWDM XFP transceivers
Optium delivers FIRST 10Gb/s full band tunable transponder (merged 2008)
FIRST to Market with Pluggable CWDM GBIC Transceivers
Initiated 10Gb/s XFP MSA
Employees: 200100100
Employees: 50001K 1K 1K 1K 1K
Acquisition: (CML® Technology)
FIRST narrowly tunable long-reach CML® butterfly transmitter for DWDM networks
IPO
Acquisition: (VCSELs)
FIRST to Market with RoHS/lead-free 4Gb/s Fibre Channel SFP transceivers
FIRST to Demonstrate
80km DWDM and 220meter EDC LRM XFP transceivers
Big Bear Networks delivers FIRST volume shipments of 40Gb/s client 300-PIN modules (acquired 2005)
FIRST to Market with Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceivers
Acquisition: (Passives)
FIRST to Market with DWDM GBIC transceivers
FIRST to Market with XFP transceivers
Employees: 100100
Finisar’s proposal for gigabit multimode optics adopted by the ANSI committee as the basis for the Fibre Channel Standard and later by the IEEE as the Gigabit Ethernet Standard.
FIRST to Marketwith 850nm 1.25Gb/s transceivers for multimode fiber
Finisar and merge to create the world’s largest supplier of optical components and subsystems
Rated #1 Vendor for Quality of 10Gb/s Ethernet Optical Modules (Light Reading Report)
FIRST public demonstration of 17Gb/s VCSEL technology
Optium delivers FIRST volume shipments of DPSK 40Gb/s 300-PIN modules
Introduced 40Gb/s active optical cable
Ranked #1 for ’Top-of-Mind’ Optical transceiver/transponder companies (Lightwave Survey)
Genoa
100 Millionth VCSEL Die shipped
Selected Top Bay Area Workplace
Acquisition:
(PON System on a Transceiver)
FIRST to Market with 100GE CFP Modules
Introduced WSS Flexgrid® Technology
FIRST to Market with 16G Fibre Channel Transceiver
Acquisition: (Tunable Lasers, AWGs)
FIRST to Market with High Port Count 1x20 WSS
Ranked#1 ’Top-of-Mind’ Optical transceiver/transponder company (Lightwave Survey)
FoundedJerry Rawls and Frank Levinson founded Finisar, a fiber optics company in Menlo Park, California. The goal was to build cost effective optical transceivers to provide the optical input and output for high-speed computer networks.
Jerry S. Rawls Dr. Frank H. Levinson
Employees: 80001K1K 1K 1K 1K 1K 1K 1K
Winner of Technology Fast 500 Award
Acquisition: (Amplifiers)
FIRST Wavelength Tunable XFP-RF optical transmitter
Employees: 12,0001K1K1K 1K 1K 1K 1K1K 1K1K 1K1K
Acquisition: (High Speed Components)
Achieved Over $1 Billion Revenue in FY14Initiated 100Gb/s CWDM4 MSA
FIRST to Demonstrate25GE SR SFP28 Modules
FIRST to Demonstrate100GE CWDM4 QSFP28 Modules
Achieved Record Breaking Revenue of $1.2+ Billion in FY15
FIRST to Demonstrate 400G QSFP-DD LR8 Modules
Demonstrated VCSEL technology for 3D Depth-Sensing Applications
250 Millionth VCSEL Die shipped
1,300 U.S. Patents Issued
Introduced Single Mode VCSELs for Consumer and Scientific Applications
300 Millionth VCSEL Die shipped
VCSEL Production Capacity Expands with Sherman, TX Facility
Introduced Flextune™ Feature for Wavelength-Tunable Optical Transceivers
Winner of Lightwave Innovation Review Award
Acquisition: (10G technology)
Acquisition: (40G technology)
FIRST to Demonstrate8Gb/s Fibre Channel SFP transceivers
Optium delivers FIRST fully field reconfigurable WSS ROADM module (merged 2008)
49 U.S. Patents Issued
Winner of Technology Fast 500 Award
150 Millionth VCSEL Die shipped
1000+ U.S. Patents Issued
FIRST to Market with 100GE Metro CFP Modules
FIRST to Demonstrate Directly Modulated (DFB) 100GE CFP2 LR4 Modules
Winner of Lightwave Innovation Review Award
Winner of Lightwave Innovation Review Award
40 & 100G QSFP SWDM4 Transceivers
Active Optical Cables Featuring Connectivity Diagnostics® and 100GHz Balanced Detector
10G Tunable Bidi SFP+ Transceiver with T2DOC™ Technology
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